Murray Wood: A star-crossed leader is beset by floor-crossing MPs
Murray Wood says Pierre Poilievre has suffered some bad timing in his career as Conservative leader, but the question is...
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Province releases new COVID modelling numbers, regional vaccination rate breakdowns
Case rates of COVID-19 are coming down in Saskatchewan, but the province still leads Canada in hospitalization and ICU rates. During a technical briefing with reporters Thursday, Dr. Saqib Shahab - th...
Nov 18, 2021
Sask. mom takes daughter's health-care issues to legislature
Sarah Turnbull's daughter, Blake, hid behind her pink skirt at times while Sarah explained her frustration and exhaustion over health-care pauses and cancellations. Blake is 2 1/2 years old and has be...
Nov 18, 2021 Sarah Turnbull and her daughter, Blake, were at the legislative building Thursday to bring their story of paused services and therapies to government attention. Nov. 18, 2021 (980 CJME)
More than 13K COVID cases in Sask. have been kids under 11
More than one-sixth of Saskatchewan's COVID-19 cases to date have been children under the age of 11. On Thursday, the provincial government's COVID dashboard changed the age groups of cases, separatin...
Nov 18, 2021 Health Minister Paul Merriman. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Latest COVID update Nov. 18: 95 new cases, 4 deaths
Saskatchewan continues to lead Canada in rate of deaths due to COVID-19. According to Health Canada statistics, the death rate in the province in the past two weeks is 3.4 deaths per 100,000 populatio...
Nov 18, 2021 (The Canadian Press file photo)
Watrous man opens his bowling alley for stranded travellers
There could be much worse places to be stranded than a bowling alley during a winter storm. Kelvin Fellner, who runs Jake’s Place in Watrous, opened up his building to anyone who needed in out o...
Nov 18, 2021
One-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine arrives but booster likely needed, doctor says
The single-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine is now available in Saskatchewan, but it may not be one and done if people want to stay fully protected in the long run. Infectious disease physi...
Nov 18, 2021
Report says Health Canada poised to approve Pfizer vaccine for kids
According to the Toronto Star, Health Canada is expected to approve Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for kids aged five to 11 on Friday. On Oct. 18, the drug manufacturer asked Health Canada to approve its C...
Nov 18, 2021
Latest COVID update Nov. 17: Four deaths push Sask. total to 901
Saskatchewan's death toll from COVID-19 went over the 900 mark Wednesday. The Ministry of Health reported four deaths, meaning 901 people from this province have died as a result of the virus since Ma...
Nov 17, 2021
Davidson steps up as safe haven for stranded travellers
Rhyse Dieno is used to helping people in bad weather, but the blizzard on Tuesday was one of the worst he can remember. Dieno and his father, Trevor, own and operate the Tim Hortons and Esso gas stati...
Nov 17, 2021
Sask. Trucking Association looking at alternative routes amid B.C. highway disasters
Flooding and mudslides in B.C. could have an impact on people in Saskatchewan. That's according to Susan Ewart with the Saskatchewan Trucking Association. "We're definitely going to see impacts on the...
Nov 17, 2021
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Sarah Mills: A lifetime smoking ban in the UK may be a step too far
Sarah Mills says there are great health-care costs associated with smoking, but those costs are also associated with obe...
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Evan talks on Thursday's show about the RM of Sherwood's AI data centre now approved to be built, Saskatoon mayor Cynthi...